From: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Critical "Times" article on Linux
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 11:58:59 GMT
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[ Moderator's note: I quite concur with Bruce. --liw ]
"The Times", a respected British newspaper, published an article that
was offensively critical of Linux in its Sunday edition.
I urge Linux users and developers to _not_ respond to this article.
When you're in a fight with an idiot, it's difficult for other people to
tell which one the idiot is.
Thanks
Bruce Perens
Debian Project Leader
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From: Alan Cox < alan@cymru.net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: That Sunday Times article
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 12:9:1 GMT
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[ Moderator's note: I concur with Alan as well. Please don't overreact. --liw ]
I lot of people will by now have seen the extremely unpleasant and
inaccurate article on Linux in the Sunday Times newspaper
("http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stiinnsnd01001.html?1202653)
but can I ask that people send sensible comments and corrections to
editor@the-times.co.uk, and David Hewson < an77@dial.pipex.net> the
"journalist" who wrote the article and refrain from rants and core dumps or
otherwise doing anything else to give us a bad name.
Alan Cox
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